At the beginning of class we went over the maps of Asia. Then a student took the test. Then we got two more forum post which were the following. Jason Aldean's bus struck and killed somebody in Indiana. The next one was that a Sumatran tigers are on the verge of extension, there are only about 400 of these tigers left on the earth. Then we went on to talking about how we could earn so extra credit. The extra credit was going and listening to a little speech on Iowa history at the Harlan Community Library. Following that we went back to our decision on the Roma's or the Gypsies. We talked about how the Roma's are pushed into a world that thinks they are bad people. In other words they are discriminated against such as the African American people were about 50 years ago. They are very poor people and often to not stay in the same place for long meaning they are modern day nomads. They are called gypsies because many years ago when they first arrived in Europe they were mistaken as people from Egypt. All in all the term gypsy is supposed to be negative. They experienced slavery many years ago they also were killed in the holocaust because their race was not of the equality that Hitler liked, these were just a few ways that the Roma's experience discrimination. They have also not been able to attend the same school as "normal" kids. Then we talked about the NSA the National Security Agency. They are the main producer and manage all signals for the United States. In other words that means they tap phones and spy on possible enemy of the United States. Apparently they were accused of spying on there own allies. When the leader of the NSA was asked about listening to our own allies he said that it is what we need to do and he talked about how it would be the wrong thing not to do this. The new thing coming out about this is that President Obama is saying that he had no idea that any of the type of stuff was going on. Then we took a little economy quiz testing us on the price differential from the late 1900's to now a day. The link below is everything we went over in class about Roma.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/21/world/europe/roma-discrimination/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
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